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Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked US harbor to destroy US fleet. It happened at 7.55 a.m. through a surprise attack. -
Declaration of War
US entered WW2 the day after Pearl Harbor. Signed in Washington DC. -
Battle of Singapore
Japanese launched an attack on British-held Singapore that was defended by some 90,000 Commonwealth troops stationed on the island. -
Battle of Java Sea
ABDA forces intercepted the invading Japaneses in the Java Sea with an aim to halt their advance in the Dutch East Indies. -
Bataan Death March begins
76,000 allied POWs including 12 americans are forced to walk 60 miles under a blazing sun without food or water. -
Battle of Coral Sea
First Combat between the Japanese and American aircraft carriers in World War 2. Only Planes no ship shot at the enemy ship. Japanese were worried that there might be more U.S. ships in this area and canceled the operation. -
Battle of Midway
Japanese launched an attack on the Aleutian Islands with an aim to divert the attention away from their true target. -
Battles of Guadalcanal
A series of battles fought both on land and sea for the largest of the Solomon Islands. -
Battle of Bloody Ridge
The UN attacked at bloody ridge was part of a series of operations intended to secure their defenses by depriving the Chinese from observations points overlooking the UN's main line of resistance. -
Battle of Cape Esperance
U.S. cruisers and destroyers defeat a Japanese task force. Japan tried to get regain of the southern Solomons. -
Battle of Bismarck Sea
U.S. and Australian land-based planes begin an offensive against a convoy of Japanese ships. -
Battle of Saipan
U.S. forces launched an attack on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands to gain an air base within a direct striking distance of mainland Japan. -
Battle of Philippine Sea
Japanese navy launched an attack with an aim to inflict a decisive defeat to the U.S. fleet in the Philippine sea. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Leyte is on of the Philippine islands. The fight of over 270 warships of the U.S. and Japan ended in a disaster for Japan as the Imperial fleet was destroyed. -
Atomic Bomb
U.S Army Air Force begins preparation for dropping the Atomic Bomb. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
U.S. Armed Forces had a superiority in both men and arms but the Japanese fiercely defended their positions virtually until the last men. -
President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies
The whole nation, no the whole world is shocked, when they got the news that President Franklin D. Roosevelt is death. -
Adolf Hitler died
Adolf Hitler shot himself in a bunker in Berlin, when he noticed that he cannot win and has no hope anymore. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Americans wanted the island at the southern tip of Japan to create a base for air raids on Japan as well as to "rehears" for the planned invasion of Japan's main island. -
First Atomic Bomb tested
U.S. tested the first Atomic bomb. It was the first time in history that they tested a nuclear explosion. (And what a explosion) -
End of the War
Victory of U.S troops over Germany. Germany divided into 4 parts.
